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"50 Lou Reed Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 2 March 1942. Died: 27 October 2013 | Musician | Poet |

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

Everything Going Happen Happens
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There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Bit Even Everything Loss
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But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Also Created Doubt Great
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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Anybody Anything Art Artist
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I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Always Believed Important Said
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I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Always Arts Choreography Could
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I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Act Because Bucket Cleaned
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I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

Believe Dressing Look Make
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I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

Actually Anyone Care Critic
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I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

Like Liked Never Them
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I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

About Album Another Going
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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Art Artists Create Ego
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I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Concentrate Far Future I Think
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I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

Artist Egotistical I Can Means
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I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

About Anything Business Long
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I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Around Been Big Big Thing
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I'm too old to do things by half.
Half Old Things Too
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In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Before Insanity Interested Late
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Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Concentrated Exclusion Me Much
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Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Bothered Interested Me Music
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One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

Listen Never Old Old Stuff
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Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

Energy Magic Night Perfect
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Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
Claim Dictator Even Right
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That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Because Believe Got Say
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Guitar Important Important Part Most
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The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

Anymore Business Interest Me
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There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

Amount Only Time Want
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These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Each Nice Other Possible
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When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Album Close Get Moment
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

Ask Because Explain Lyrics
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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Chords Jazz More Than
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I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Like Mine Nostalgia Unless
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I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
Drinking Give I Tried Tried
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You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

Bass Beat Drums Guitars
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People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Chi Out People Think
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The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

All People Die Dying Else
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

About Career Doing Going
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The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

Any Better CDs Chance
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I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

Beer Cans Caused Cities
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Anybody Best Compass Else
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Level Like Novels Opera
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It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Albums Around Depressing Out
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I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

Amount Chorus Diamonds Mean
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You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

Musician Play You What
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I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Albums Anything Little Me
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Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

About Beads Closed Complicated
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I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

Adjusted Become Being Cult
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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

About Anything Felt Kind
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I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

Am Genuinely Guy I Think
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I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.
Anything Being Create I Can
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Lou Reed Quotes & Sayings